[Dr. Sivana]

You are putting the entire Canadian diet at risk. Not just lettuce, but all of California’s green, red, and yellow vegetables, with California fruits and nuts also on the line (referring of course to the eatables, not to the crazy people in California).

Then Canada will sell its surplus Maple Syrup (90% of world's supply) to other countries at a discount, start importing Italian tomatoes, eat grapes ONLY when they are ready from Chile, etc. As long as Tim Bits can be made, and the coffee isn't cut off from South America and Africa, they'll put up with it, just as they did before modern transport.

Actually, the U.S. isn't gonna be the one so hungry for the water. After all, we have access to the Great Lakes as well. If CA had a rational government, all that choo-choo money would go towards desalinization.

[Rockingham]

There is a long-stalled US claim under NAFTA against Canada for rejected a US company’s plan to export water to the US. I suspect that water claim may be put forward as a counter to Canada’s damages claim under NAFTA for the US denial of the Keystone oil pipeline. In the alchemy of legal disputes, water and oil may in fact go together.